Hi Tom (and others) >> linbobo:~/sedtest# sed 's_\n<pre>\n_\n<pre>\n\n_' <original.txt >> >new.txt linbobo:~/sedtest# less new.txt
> You want to change the regexp here. In regular expressions '^' matches start of line and '$' matches end of line. > Your sed instruction above should be something like 's/^<pre>$/<pre>\n/', or more generally 's/^\(<pre>\)$/\1\n/'. Ok, I've got most of it. The last part is more of a bash problem I think as most of the files have spaces in them. Not my idea, it's how the files were delivered to me. :-( So the command line: for i in `ls *.txt` ; do ./add-pre-nl.sh $i; done does not cut it as it chops the filesnames up and issues each part to the add-pre-nl script. :-( If I just use ./add-pre-nl.sh file\ name\ with\ spaces.txt it will produce the result I want. Does someone know the solution or should I ask in a bash Group? Bonno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/005501cc74b5$966cff50$c346fdf0$@blok...@tio.nl
